A number of American Idol contestants earned the judges’ praise after singing original songs in the New Orleans audition episode. But only one is the nephew of Carlos Santana. Or auditioned playing guitar with a broken thumb. That would be Adam Lasher, a 27-year-old songwriter from Danville, Calif. Adam performed an original called “These Shoes”…
Harry Connick Jr. took one look at Ricky Dale Hendricks’ name and figured he was a country singer. He was right, of course. But he might not have expected this 17-year-old to be quite as impressive during his Season 14 American Idol audition in New Orleans. Ricky, from West Monroe, La., expressed awe about the…
Erica Washington was the very last singer we met during American Idol’s Season 14 New Orleans audition episode. But she left one of the biggest impressions on the judges after a rendition of Beyonce’s “Halo” that showed off the power and range in her voice. In fact, Keith Urban and Harry Connick Jr. said they…
Jacob Tolliver delivered one of the more unexpected auditions during American Idol’s Minneapolis episode. The 20-year-old from Massachusetts now lives in Las Vegas while he’s the Jerry Lee Lewis understudy in a show called Million Dollar Quartet, featuring the music of Lewis, Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash and Carl Perkins. So for his Idol audition, Jacob…
